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Quotes About Display

The world in general, gentlemen, are very bloody-minded; and all they want in a murder is a copious effusion of blood; gaudy display in this point is enough for them.
~ Thomas de Quincey
When I get a job, I buy one really nice thing to have something to show for it.
~ Gwilym Lee
C'era forse un posto più noioso al mondo del British Museum? Se c'era, Will non voleva sapere quale. Vasi. Monete. Brocche. Intere sale piene di piatti. Secondo Will doveva esserci uno scopo per mettere in mostra delle cose, e il fatto che fossero vecchie non significava necessariamente che fossero interessanti. Solo perché erano sopravvissute al tempo, non significava che tu volessi guardarle
~ Nick Hornby
securely around the saddle horn. "Want to show off, Sundown?" With a toss of his head, the gelding trotted out to the center of the ring. "Rattlesnake!" At Callen's call, Sundown reared, hooves striking air. "Backstabber." Dropping his forelegs, Sundown kicked his back legs high. "Do-si-do." Brightly, the horse danced laterally left, swung his
~ Nora Roberts
crèche was displayed on the mantel. Beneath it hung four
~ Nora Roberts
perform." "I recall a performance
~ Nora Roberts
Favorite pots showed their dark bottoms from hooks and gaily colored flowers from the pasture leaned out of thin glassware.
~ Colson Whitehead
Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.
~ Colson Whitehead
Verkligheten var en föränderlig skyltning i ett butiksfönster, manipulerad av händer när man inte såg, lockande och ständigt utom räckhåll.
~ Colson Whitehead
Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. The
~ Colson Whitehead
The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglebooks which, ignoring all space-time distinctions, commingle in the soft light of a furniture store beyond which it snows, and the dusk deepens, and nobody really loves anybody.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
My temper is under control," he roared, and yep, that display surely convinced Ares.
~ Larissa Ione
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
~ Laurence Olivier
Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
it helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display, and all of a sudden if you are single, you have a window to heaven and no way at all to get in.
~ Charles Baxter
Every physical movement is mannered, thought-out, plotted for maximum screen effect. She takes deep breaths. She seems to sigh a lot. She's the first-class passenger on a ride of her own invention and she loves the fact that she can share it.
~ Graham Hurley
If you can't fix it, feature it.
~ Gregory Boyle
We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.
~ Gregory Dickow
he had kept encased in glass hanging from an
~ James Lee Burke
fuzzy black lines hiccuped across the screen.
~ James Patterson
Two LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… ME!
~ James Patterson
said, 'Good show.
~ James Patterson
corner to the front of the store, where the buff
~ James Patterson
There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
~ Bill Pullman